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How to plan and design a course

Introduction

At our university, teaching is designed to be versatile and activating, effective and innovative. Here, you will find information, suggestions and templates for the following scenarios:

• You want to organise a course

• You are planning a new course

• You want to innovate a course

Please feel free to contact us directly on these topics, especially if you are facing specific challenge.

Course organisation

The programme designer at the TUHH

When organising a new module or course, teachers currently enter all the relevant data (including module description, number of credit points, module events, learning objectives, etc.) in the degree programme designer. New modules must be discussed with the head of the degree programme. Individual events must be discussed with the person responsible for the module. Deadlines for submission can be found on the start page of the degree programme designer. When innovating an event or module, use the framework provided by the module description as a guide

Contact person: Sybille Kronenwerth

Our course and learning management at TUHH

At the TU Hamburg, you can use the study platform (Stud.IP/ ILIAS) for course organisation.

Contact persons are:

for didactic questions: Stephanie Wichmann
for technical questions: the User Service Center of the Data Centre

How to book a room at TUHH

The course rooms are allocated by the room planning team before the semester begins, based on the data entered in the course designer. For special and individual courses or events, corresponding rooms can be requested from the room allocation team (raumvergabe@tuhh.de), e.g. room K1520.

The WorkINGLab can be booked directly with the contact person oft he WorkINGLab,
the LuK via the AStA, and
the PhD examination room B 0.001 via the Graduate Academy.

Course planning

When planning a course, it is fundamentally important to start from which skills and knowlegde students should have acquired at the end of the course. Feedback and exams are geared towards this. Accordingly, coherent and effective teaching/learning activities on the course content are planned for as well presence and self-study time of the whole semester.

Contact persons: Katrin Billerbeck and Ulrike Bulmann

Constructive Alignment - a brief explanation (Video)

A Video from the Delft University of Technology

Constructive alignment is considered in the planning grid for a semester and in each individual course unit.

Contact persons: Katrin Billerbeck and Ulrike Bulmann

Course design

There is not that one right way for good teaching design. But there are many things that you as a teacher can control and that will have a significant impact on learning success. It is worth asking yourself a few questions before designing a course. The Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL) at the University of Hamburg provides some materials for this.

Choose methods, techniques and media that are coherent with your teaching, learning objectives and exam to convey content, activate students and provide feedback. This also emphasises your authenticity as a teacher. The teaching/learning activities can be designed in a diversified way, e.g. according to the sandwich principle, as well as in combination with presence and self-study time.

At our university, teaching is actively shaped and effectively implemented in a variety of ways in the individual course types. This is possible, for example,

with methods such as think-pair-share, peer instruction, group work or peer feedback
with formats such as flipped classroom, case studies, problem-based and project-based learning, research-based learning or challenge-based learning, and
with digital media (see advice on digital teaching).

Contact person: Siska Simon

How to plan and design a course

Introduction

Course organisation

The programme designer at the TUHH

The programme designer at the TUHH

Our course and learning management at TUHH

How to book a room at TUHH

Course planning

Constructive Alignment - a brief explanation (Video)

Course design

Ihre Ansprechpartnerin am ZLL

TU Hamburg

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